The head of the block of deputies for the Front of All (FdT), Germán Martínez, estimated this Tuesday that the opposition will try “not to give a quorum” when it is debated the bill on the creation of a fund to pay the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with money transferred abroad without having been declaredand that has half a sanction from the Senatebut he warned that in the Chamber of Deputies the initiatives “do not fall asleep, nor are they lost.”
“It is very important to debate with what dollars we are going to pay the debt with the IMF. It is a debate that challenges all political forces. The opposition will surely try to prevent the issues from being discussed, as it always does. Today they called for a debate on the single ballot throughout Argentina, something that should not be the country’s main issue,” said the deputy in statements to Radio 10, referring to the debate promoted by Together for Change to establish the single paper ballot for the national elections.
In this line, Martínez commented that the FdT is “carrying forward the agenda that (President) Alberto Fernández requested” and remarked that, if we had not agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), “we would still be paying for the unpayable schedule that (former president) Mauricio Macri outlined.”
The rule drafted by Senator Oscar Parrilli determines that the “possession of national and/or foreign currency, real estate, furniture, shares, participation in companies and beneficiary rights of trusts or the like” will be subject to payment.
It will also include all kinds of “financial instruments or securities such as bonds, negotiable obligations, certificates of deposit in custody (ADRs), shares of open or closed common funds, crypto assets and other assets abroad, including intangibles, credits and all kinds of right susceptible of economic value”.
The bloc chief maintained that, to pay the debt with the IMF, the dollars would come “either from the national economy, or from recovering part of the dollars that escaped.”
“We have to give a deep debate on who sustains the payment”, affirmed.
Besides, Martínez also spoke about the modification of the Rental Law and assured that the ruling party “did not agree to repeal the current law.”
“Today there are difficulties for owners and tenants, but let’s not forget that in the middle there was a pandemic, which froze rents, in two periods of 180 days; that affected the rent,” he said.
Finally, he indicated that “there is still no date” to deal with the issue and they continue to work to “have a majority on the floor.”
